The New York One Show’s Best of Show award has gone to Cross-Platform winner Refugee Nation for Amnesty International from Ogilvy New York. The campaign celebrates 2016’s first Olympics team for refugees. Event organiser One Club CEO Kevin Swanepoel says: ...
Read More »Gunn Report names 2016’s top ad award winners – adam&eveDDB is top agency
The Gunn Report into ad awards for 2016 names BBDO as the Most Awarded Network, adam&eveDDB the Most Awarded Agency (two of the top four are from New Zealand), Burger King’s ‘McWhopper’ Most Awarded Campaign, USA Most Awarded Country, Samsung ...
Read More »D&AD and Advertising Week team to launch new global ‘awards for good’
Britain’s D&AD is teaming with the Advertising Week organisers to launch what they call a “global award show that recognizes companies and brands that are making the world a better place.” Maybe it should be called the loaves and fishes ...
Read More »£40m Cannes Lions adds ‘digital craft’ as the festival just gets bigger and bigger
The Cannes International Festival of Creativity, which rolls (lurches?) on to La Croisette from June 18-25, has announced the runners and riders for this year in terms of prizes and jury chairs. New on the scene is a Digital Craft ...
Read More »Can DDB’s Kassaei turn back the awards tide?
There’s a fierce rivalry between WPP and Omnicom (as you may have noticed) and the most visible stage for it in recent years has been the battle for creative awards, most notably at the Cannes International Festival of Creativity. Recently ...
Read More »Who is going to make the big deals and produce the big winners in 2015?
What’s going to happen in adland in 2015? 1/ The first is that time (and tide) wait for no man and, in February WPP CEO Sir Martin Sorrell will be 70 while arch enemy Maurice Levy of Publicis Groupe will ...
Read More »Oystercatchers awards show how new business pitches have become an industry inside an industry
Lively London client/agency matchmaker Oystercatchers held its annual awards last night for agency new business teams, awarding gongs for best RFI (response to client request for information), agency film, agency website and agency credentials. The only thing missing is best ...
Read More »Coca-Cola, ANZ and Nivea triumph in off-the wall Cannes choices in media, outdoor and mobile
Cannes 2014: Coca-Cola and McCann Lima won the Media Grand Prix for this campaign trying to make Peruvians more happy. Search me guv, but I’m sure it ticked all the boxes. How do you pick the best media campaign? A ...
Read More »Simon Hakim of Hunter: how do you judge an agency – awards, effectiveness or both?
This month, April 25th marks two important events. First, it’s ANZAC day, commemorating the sacrifices of the Australian and New Zealand army corps in both World Wars – it also means a day off work. But many in the Australian ...
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